CLI - Allow Export by Album/Account

[creedda]

Feature request.

Please allow exporting individual albums rather than all or nothing. I would assume the same should be done for accounts (though I have not tested adding multiple accounts yet)

This is not something we would probably need regularly, but it is good for testing to make sure the export is going to work with a smaller number of files.

Probably would need to add an "ente-cli account album list" and an "ente-cli export -album album name" and "ente-cli export -account account-name" as options to allow granularity.

Thank you again!

[mxmehl]

I would love to have this feature as well. Ideally, this would be combined with an option to exclude one or multiple albums or those that are shared with us.

Background: I would like to export all photos of me and my family members. However, we share some albums with each other. As of now, I could somehow hack that there are multiple jobs for the different accounts, but each would export the sometimes huge shared albums that are present in all/most accounts.

[mxmehl]

I just noticed that you can add multiple accounts. Would this de-duplicate the albums already? I would test it but as both accounts use a lot of space it would take a looong time.

[vishnukvmd]

Sorry no, this does not de-duplicate albums currently.

It'll pull all files belonging to respective accounts.

[robertsattler]

For now, I set up an external tool for deduplication right after export, like this:

ente export
rdfind -minsize 50000 -makehardlinks true -makeresultsfile false ./ente

Removing 6 GB of duplicates took 2-3 minutes. I would expect rmlint to be faster, but the simplicity of rdfind made it an easy decision for now. Using -minsize 50000 to exclude JSON metadata files is a precaution. Executing ente export after rdfind again does not redownload any files.

Could you please tell whether there is risk to deduplicate a) the photos like this and b) the metadata files. Thank you.

[vishnukvmd]

Hey, not super familiar with rdfind, but from what I can see from their documentation, this looks good!

Since rdfind compares files based on the content, and you're skipping the metadata files, both a) and b) come across as risk free.